Thursday, 26 January 2012

I added some reflections onto the bottles to make it look as if the light was hitting them (it also makes it more apparent that they're glass). I decided against using the version with the extra bottles coming off the page- it makes the outcome look too much like a wallpaper.

Here's my entry for the East Midlands 'where art meets science' competition (currently a work in progress). I wanted to create a pattern based piece with no characters so have decided to base my outcome around the chronology of the medicine bottle. I created the outline of the piece with dipper pen and ink and am now adding blocks of flat colour behind the bottles digitally (unaligned). The last and most recent bottle in the series will contain some coloured pills rather than a single block of colour like the others. The initial plan was to create a screen print, however I ran out of time. I still might try a version using painted colour though.

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Some development work for both my negotiated project and Scwitters submission. I've decided to design the labelling for a glass bottle which will contain the blood of 'The Good Man' (the character in my Merz fairytale whose blood is drained by a swarm of mosquitoes).

I started off by looking at old circus and freak show posters and was initially looking at having my own poster advertising The Good Man to the mosquitoes. This gradually developed into my current labelling design and idea. So far I've only worked on the front label, although I'm planning on creating a second for the back of the bottle which will feature details such as an ingredients list, number of units and maybe some drink aware information specifically aimed at the would be consumers of my product; in this case, the mosquitoes. I'm going to create a lino print of the character, hand draw the typography and the assemble all the different elements on photoshop.

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